Chrisman v. Linderman’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably Henderson, Et Vir. v. Usher (1936), Keeney v. McVoy (1907)
28 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Chouteau v. Missouri Pacific Railway Co. · Jameson v. Hayward · Venable v. Wabash Western Railway Co. · Griffith v. Townley · Corrigan v. Tiernay
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been held that in equity estates are kept distinct when the interest of either party requires it; that merger is not favored in equity, and never takes place contrary to the intention of the parties, or the requirements of justice .... As the merger is for the benefit of him in whom the two estates unite, it will never take place when it is against his interest, or when it is most for his advantage to keep the charge alive.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Every widow shall be endowed of the third part of all the lands whereof her husband, or any other person to his use, was seized of an estate of inheritance, at any time during the marriage, to which she shall not have relinquished her right of dower, in the manner prescribed by law, to hold and enjoy during her natural life. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Resch v. Rowland
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.